Abstract— The paper presents a location-aware communication approach in smart home environments. It is constructed on a symbolic location model to represent the containment relat...
Context awareness is the most important research area in ubiquitous computing. In particular, for smart home, context awareness attempts to bring the best services to the home hab...
The home environment becomes ready to host distributed devices dynamically adapting to service availability and reacting to user location and user activity. Sensors, high definiti...
The technology of a home network system (HNS) allows integration of several kinds of home appliances to provide a user with value-added integrated services. Development of the int...
This paper introduces dual-quorum replication, a novel data replication algorithm designed to support Internet edge services. Edge services allow clients to access Internet service...
Lei Gao, Michael Dahlin, Jiandan Zheng, Lorenzo Al...